The Joy Journal For Grown-ups: 50 homemade craft ideas to inspire creativity and connection

by Laura Brand

'This book is a chance to slow down and find stillness. Self-care in the most beautiful, creative ways.' – Fearne Cotton

Fifty imaginative ideas for crafts that encourage a sense of joy and mindfulness. Includes a foreword by Melissa Hemsley.

The Joy Journal For Grown-ups invites you to experiment, play and unlock your creative potential with a range of simple crafts that can bring a little more calm into your everyday life. Using store-cupboard ingredients and easily foraged supplies, this beautifully illustrated handbook includes new and inspiring ideas for adding a personal touch to celebrations, creating unique gifts, and making stunning keepsakes.

Whether you are a beginner or confident crafter, bestselling author Laura Brand gently guides you through a host of delightful projects including beautiful flower-pressed candles, scented body butter, and origami hearts. She invites you to carve out 'me time' and enjoy shared creative experiences with friends that can help us to feel more connected and harness the freedom of play from childhood.

Imaginative, engaging and easy to follow, this gorgeous, step-by-step guide features all the encouragement you need to find inspiration, awaken your creativity and brighten your mood.

• ISBN10: 1529074746
• ISBN13: 9781529074741
• Publish Date: 31 March 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Bluebird
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

I loved the concept of this book - lovely little projects to create little islands of stillness in a busy world. I just found it somewhat lacking.

The book was well constructed with clear sections and well put-together methods and instructions. The illustrations the book had were really lovely and simple, but there weren't any pictures of any of the projects made to completion. Because of this, it was hard to get excited about any of them - especially since most of the projects were stuff you find in pretty much every craft-based Instagram or TikTok out there. In fact, Brand's own Instagram has photographs of some of the finished products!

There just wasn't enough in this to pique my interest and keep me motivated enough to want to create anything. Especially since a lot is just space-wasting, and the things that weren't didn't have enough instructions to be of any genuine use.

This was nice as a pretty illustrated coffee table book, but completely missed the mark as a genuine crafting book.